2013 January 09 | New Nigerian Politics

PDP BoT election ends in stalemate

The three-hour meeting of members of the Board of Trustees of the Peoples Democratic Party held at the Presidential Villa, Abuja on Tuesday failed to produce a new chairman of the board as expected. The meeting was meant to elect a replacement for former President Olusegun Obasanjo who resigned from the position last year for […]

Why fuel subsidy account is empty —Okonjo-Iweala (It has been embezzled?)

Posted by admin Latest Politics, National Politics Wednesday, January 9th, 2013

The Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, on Tuesday confirmed The PUNCH’s story that the Federal Government’s subsidy account with the Central Bank of Nigeria was empty, blaming the situation on technical hitches in the documentation with the CBN. Okonjo-Iweala, while briefing journalists in Abuja, said the transfer of funds meant for fuel subsidy payments […]

Talk with Boko Haram, Obasanjo tells Jonathan

Posted by admin Boko Haram, Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Olusegun Obasanjo (1976-79, 99-07), Presidency Wednesday, January 9th, 2013

FORMER President Olusegun Obasanjo on Tuesday said the President Goodluck Jonathan administration had not been reaching out enough to the violent Islamic sect, Boko Haram, and canvassed what he described as a “carrot-and-stick” strategy to address the sect’s menace. Obasanjo told the CNN in an interview that Jonathan had been applying less of dialogue and […]

Chime: Where are the people of Enugu?

Posted by admin Enugu, Headlines, State News Wednesday, January 9th, 2013

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter” —Martin Luther King, Jnr. It should be of utmost concern to the indigenes of Enugu State that the peaceful state is gradually drifting into a state of anarchy, following the intrigues playing out on the whereabouts of the state governor, Sullivan […]